Crossroads
On a stage in San Francisco, the British power trio Cream took Robert Johnson's acoustic Delta lament and plugged it into a massive wall of Marshall amplifiers. Supported by bassist Jack Bruce and drummer Ginger Baker's...
On a stage in San Francisco, the British power trio Cream took Robert Johnson's acoustic Delta lament and plugged it into a massive wall of Marshall amplifiers. Supported by bassist Jack Bruce and drummer Ginger Baker's frenetic, heavily jazz-influenced rhythm section, Eric Clapton delivered what is widely considered one of the most celebrated live guitar performances in rock history. Played at a blistering, aggressive tempo, Clapton executed a fluid, incredibly articulate solo that brought the complex vocabulary of Chicago electric blues to a stadium audience, fundamentally writing the playbook for the hard rock of the 1970s.